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Nehru Planetarium was inaugurated by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru on 3rd March 1977.

It has a circular sky-theater with a seating capacity of about 575.
The technology marched at a growing space bringing new ideas and means. To keep abreast with the new technology, Nehru Centre has installed Digistar-3 Planetarium equipment replacing Carl Zeiss Universal Projector, purchased from Evans & Sutherland, of USA.

This equipment is basically a bank of eight computers that have the latest database of the sky loaded onto them. All the advantages of digital imagery are thus brought to the fingertips of the operator. The computers send the information to six high resolution video projectors that cover the entire dome. Digistar-3 system has 5.1 channel surround sound.

in the middle of the sky theater is giant planetarium projector. It's a night-sky as seen from any place on earth at any time, past, present and future

Regards
Suhas B.Naik-Satam
Programme Co-ordinator
Nehru Planetarium
Dr.Annie Besant Road
Worli, Mumbai-400018

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